Description: Historians and literary scholars explore the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of Tudor and early Stuart England. Collectively the essays demonstrate that the evolution of historical conceptions of parliament was central to the ecclesiological and political thinking and culture of the period before the English Revolution.
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'No book can solve all our problems in understanding the role of the past in early modern politics. But this volume makes a significant contribution to that project by its combination of wide argument and fine-grained detail.'
Parliamentary History